University of Hamburg - to research, to teach, to educate and form, to homepage
Law
Faculty of Law

Photo: UHH/Kursun

Prof. Dr. Heribert Hirte, LLM (Berkeley)

Heribert Hirte

University Professor (Emeritus)

Address

University of Hamburg
Faculty of Law
Rothenbaumchaussee 33
20148 Hamburg

Office hours

  • by appointment

Contact


Secretary's office

Nicola Heinrichs
Secretary of Prof. Dr. Konrad Duden and Prof. Dr. Claudia Schubert
Alsterterrasse 1, 20354 Hamburg (Secretary's office Prof. Dr. Konrad Duden); Rothenbaumchaussee 11, 20148 Hamburg (Secretary's office Prof. Dr. Claudia Schubert)
Room: 205, Alsterterrasse 1 (Prof. Duden); 3002, Rothenbaumchaussee 11 (Prof. Schubert)
Tel: +49 40 42838-3174 (Prof. Duden); +49 40 42838-9371 (Prof. Schubert)


Website

Please click here for the chair's website.

CV

  • 1977–82: studies at the University of Cologne
  • 1978: bank internship in London
  • 1979–80: studies at the University of Lausanne
  • 1982–84: legal traineeship in Cologne, Speyer, and Milan
  • 1988–89: LLM studies at the University of California in Berkeley
  • 1985: doctorate at the University of Cologne
  • 1994: Habilitation at the University of Cologne
  • Winter Semester 1993/94–Winter Semester 1999/2000: professor within the Chair for German and European Civil and Commercial Law at the University of Jena
  • 1995–2000: deputy member of the Thuringian Constitutional Court
  • 1999–2004: professor at the University of Luxembourg
  • Summer Semester 2000–present: professor at Universität Hamburg; managing director of the Trade, Maritime and Commercial Law Seminar
  • 2001: visiting professor at Doshisha University in Kyoto and Korea University in Seoul
  • Winter Semester 2003/04–present: faculty member for the research doctorate in corporate law at Bocconi University in Milan
  • 2006 and 2008: visiting professor at Bocconi University in Milan
  • Winter Semester 2010/11: declined a W3 professorship for civil law, trade law and company law at the University of Trier
  • February–April 2011: research stay at Fordham University, School of Law, New York
  • 2013: elected as the direct candidate for the Cologne II constituency (WK 094) to the 18th German Bundestag. Pursuant to Section 5 subsection 1 of the members of the German Bundestag act (Abgeordnetengesetz, AbgG), Prof. Dr. Heribert Hirte’s civil service contract has been suspended since this time; pursuant to Section 9 AbgG, he has continued to work at Universität Hamburg on a part-time basis (25 percent)

Teaching/examinations

  • civil law
  • trade law
  • social law
  • trademark, copyright, and competition law
  • comparative law

Fields of research

  • trade law
  • social law
  • insolvency law
  • capital markets law
  • comparative law

Public offices and functions

  • February 1994–present: member of the board of the German-American Lawyers Association; vice president since March 1999 (DAJV)
  • 1996–2000: (founding) board member of the Thuringian working group for corporate and insolvency law; chairman, May 1999–March 2001
  • January 1997–present: member of the editorial team for the Zeitschrift für Unternehmens- und Gesellschaftsrecht; co-editor since January 2001 (ZGR)
  • Summer Semester 1997–Winter Semester 1999/2000: deputy spokesperson for the research training group “Opportunities for private law and public law management in European and international commercial law” at the University of Jena
  • May 1998–present: co-editor of the Zeitschrift für das gesamte Insolvenzrecht (ZInsO)
  • 2002–present: member of the advisory board of the European Business Organization Law Review (EBOR)
  • Winter Semester 2001/02–present: member of the “Law and Economics” research training group at Universität Hamburg
  • 2004–present: managing editor of the European Company and Financial Law Review (ECFR)
  • 2004–present: member of the standing committee of the Deutscher Juristen-Fakultätentag; deputy chairman since 2008 (DJFT)
  • 2005–09: member of the board of the European Law Faculties Association (ELFA); deputy chairman from 2006–07, chairman from 2007–08 (ELFA)
  • 2006–present: member of the international editorial team of the Diritto fallimentare e delle società commerciali
  • 2007–present: member of the academic advisory board of the Institute for Corporate and Capital Markets Law at Bucerius Law School, Hamburg (ICCML)
  • 2008–present: co-editor of the DAJV newsletter (magazine of the German-American Lawyers Association, DAJV-NL)
  • 2009–present: (founding) board member and deputy chairman of the Verein für Bank- und Kapitalmarktrecht in Hamburg e. V.; chairman since 2011 

Dissertation supervision

Publications and Lectures